Wait times further increase for those handset owners that have even
older flagship handsets, with the KitKat update having arrived to such devices some 6 months to 8 months after being officially released.
Samsung's
older flagship handsets are all over our daily firmware updates today but the Galaxy A3 is on top of the list.
Not exact matches
Samsung's announcement relates to
older handsets, with their current
flagship Samsung Galaxy S II already arrives with this latest version of the Google mobile platform.
Android 5.0 will initially be available on the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, followed by
older Nexus smartphones and tablets, Google Play Edition devices, and various
flagship handsets from the main Android device makers.
However, Samsung who tends to release a new
flagship handset every year has found a creative new way to put the
old smartphones at work.
The result is a
handset that resembles a shrunken version of the
old Xperia Z4 tablet from way back in 2015, as well as generations of bygone Sony
flagships.
If you want an
older handset that still stands up to today's
flagship smartphones, and in many ways laid the groundwork for them, then look no further than September 2014's Samsung Galaxy Note Edge and to a similar extent its regular Note 4 variant.
Old and new Samsung
flagship handsets are on today's daily firmware updates list, but so are other Samsung smartphones from all ranges.
The latest
flagship handsets and an
old smartphone from 2015 just received the May security patch from Samsung in India and reportedly, these three are the first ones to receive the latest Android SMR in the country from the Korean company.
Samsung's
old and new
flagship handsets are on top of the daily firmware list today.
What seems pretty much guaranteed is the
flagship handset family will be launched on the
old continent with Huawei Pay support.
Samsung has already confirmed that its Bixby AI features will be heading to other Galaxy phones in the future, and as last year's
flagship, the Galaxy S7 has to be pretty close to the top of that list.The timeframe remains unclear, though, as does the specifics of which Bixby features will make it to
older handsets.
The much touted Samsung Bixby smart assistant is exclusive to the latest Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 +
flagships, but it has already been unofficially ported to
older handsets as well.
Forbes reports the company has claimed so many of Qualcomm's upgraded Snapdragon 835 processors for its new
flagship phone that the rest of the industry has had to resort to the
older Snapdragon 821 for their
handsets — or alternatively opt for drastic launch delays.
Android users are in search of a new star now that Samsung's most recent
flagship phone is more than seven months
old, and Google's first self - designed
handsets could be just what the doctor ordered.
When smartphone companies go to war every year with their
flagship phones, it sometimes gets every confusing for users who are looking for an upgrade from their
older handsets.
With the
flagship Z10 and Q10 BlackBerry
handsets out of the way, attention turns to something further down the scale, the BlackBerry Q5, a Qwerty
handset that doesn't quite hit all the highs of the Q10.It steps somewhere into the path of the
old BlackBerry... Read more
I suppose other manufacturers refuse to develop similar
handsets for fear that they'll undermine the
older gen
flagship, but this is something that I'd really like to see more of, so big points for HTC on this one.
Samsung's Galaxy S8 is one of the best
flagship handsets of the year, and because it's a few months
old, it's already ripe for some hot deals.
Whether you have an
old clunker of an Android phone or a brand new
flagship handset like the Galaxy S6 or HTC One M9, there is one thing that holds true across the board: your phone can be faster.